Definitely more efficient than NASA today. But private companies wouldn't have been able to pull off the moon landing, which was NASA's great accomplishment.
There's a place for government programs and enormous piles of money.
I've heard it theorized that the strategy is intended to starve the military of officers so that Trump can fill the vacancies with loyalists when he regains the White House. Essentially, it is the military equivalent of Project 2025.
I was just thinking how sweaty this kind of Trump joke has become.